We Read Banned Books. Do You?

Posted September 29, 2012byMPPL

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette. Similarly, if libraries carried only the books that did not offend, they would be sadly lacking titles to fill the shelves.

Celebrate Banned Book Week (September 28 – October 5) with the Mount Prospect Public Library by reading a banned book. Here is a starter list of books that have been banned, in order of their appearance from the video below: